How climate change affects pandemic trends
Friday updates
As climate change reshapes life on earth, it may also become the single biggest upstream driver of pandemic risk. Our new study in @Nature simulates how 3,139 species will share viruses - and create new spillover risk hotspots - over the next 50 years.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
1. The US has recorded its first case of H5 bird flu infection in a person.
The man, who was culling H5 (presumably #H5N1) infected poultry, lives in Colorado. He reportedly had extremely mild symptoms — fatigue — & has recovered.